Palestinian president Abbas says kidnappers seek destruction of Palestinian Authority.
Rossiya 24's reporter Igor Kornelyuk and sound engineer Anton Voloshin killed near Luhansk.
Chen placed full page advert in New York Times inviting 1,000 Americans to dinner.
Kurds roar 'Isis can beat Maliki, but they can't beat us'
Leaving Grenoble Hospital in France was a 'big step mentally' for the Schumacher family
Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk says attack meant to discredit Ukraine as a gas transit partner.
After call with Putin, Poroshenko proposes ceasefire to allow pro-Russian separatists chance to lay down weapons
Five Iraqi soldiers killed after militants attack Iraq's biggest oil refinery in Baiji, north of Baghdad.
Sunni Islamist militants close in on Baghdad from north and west as Iraq's Shiite administration scrambles forces.
Indians working in construction projects abducted during evacuation from war-ravaged city.
About 97 Indonesian nationals believed to be on board stricken boat.
Shia district of Baghdad hit by deadly bomb blast
Explosion rips through football viewing centre in Damaturu - reports
A threat to Western oil interests in southern Iraq would make US-UK intervention more likely.
Islamist militant group al-Shabaab calimed responsibility for two attacks that killed at least 60 people.
Separatist group aims at creating independent Biafra Republic.
US secret raid in Libya nets terrorist allegedly responsible for attack that killed ambassador Chris Stevens.
Gary Hartstein, former chief medic of F1 blasts Sabine Kehm following news Schumacher has moved to Lausanne.
Photos of volunteers young and old joining the Iraqi Army to fight Islamic militants.
Mystery artist tying dog-shaped balloons to Underground carriage polls along Northern Line.
Blast struck the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod pipeline also known as the West-Siberian Pipeline.
Russian state media reporter died in hospital from injuries in clashes between Ukraine and separatists.
Security footage shows three assailants during chop attack against mahjong players in Hotan city.
Israel has intensified its hunt for three Jewish teenagers who went missing on 12 June.
A Roma teenager has been left in a coma after savage beating by 'lynch mob' of vigilantes in a Paris suburb.
Igor Kornelyuk, reporter for Rossiya Channel hit as Ukraine shells pro-Russian forces in Lugansk.
Advert showed man slumped against car alongside text stating 'I don't want to die sober'
Controversial Facebook posts and whatsapp messages are under more intense scrutiny.
The feline tried to climb into Zhang Mingyu's boat in Wusuli River, in the Heilongjiang province.
Brent's premium to the August WTI contract stood at $6.69 in early trade.